If you are familar with Installing LAMP and configuring your server, like seperatly installing Apache, MySQL and PHP, you can skip this guid. If you want to speed up LAMP installation with few clicks and selection, you can follow this tutorial.

We will be using Tasksel to complete our Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack installation on Amazon EC2 instance.

What is Taskel?

Tasksel package provides a simple interface for users to configure their system to perform a specific task. Tasksel is a Debian/Ubuntu tool that installs multiple related packages as a co-ordinated "task" onto your system. This program is used during the installation process, but users can also use tasksel at any time.